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The river Dee Bangor on Dee to Farndon by Caroline James

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The river Dee Bangor on Dee to Farndon by Caroline James.

A lovely sunny March paddle from Bangor on Dee to Farndon. Carl, Kevin, Keith and myself met at 09.30 by Farndon bridge to shuttle cars to our start at Bangor on Dee for our relaxed paddle along the twisty River Dee back to Farndon.

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We launched our boats (2 sea kayaks, a Canadian and a GP boat) by The Royal Oak pub, where there is lots of street parking, once we were all on the water we posed for a picture, shortly after one our team took an early dip to cool himself off!!
It was lovely scenery with numerous birds and the odd heron, lots of little beaches made us spoilt for choice for an easy coffee stop.

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Our peace and tranquillity whilst paddling was interrupted by a man claiming to be a farmer, who had obviously got out of the wrong side of bed!!  He was very aggressive and shouting at us, stating he owned the river!! with our ‘hearing aids’ turned off, we continued on our paddle, but he kept popping up along the riverbank for a good 20 minutes of ranting and raving.

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We made good progress with the river flowing at a nice rate, lots of driftwood on the banks showed us how high the river Dee had obviously been earlier in the year covering the Cheshire flood plain. Eventually we could see the nice houses of Holt and then Farndon bridge, we got out quite a distance before the bridge to avoid the mud and it was easier to get the boats up the bank.

Thanks to Carl for organising a very relaxed paddle on the river Dee, grade 1, and to Carl, Keith and Kevin for their company.

Caroline James.

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